All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) took on Wal-Mart stores and, get this, ACFTU won.
Wal-Mart hates unions...I do, too, but...
ACFTU, with its membership of 150 million in 1,174 branches took on Wal-Mart and its 1.6 million employees in 16 countries. Wal-Mart has 23,000 employees at 60 Chinese outlets.
On July 29, a Wal-Mart in Jinjiang City set up a union. By mid August, 18 other outlets followed suit - Nanjing, Fuzhou, Jinan, Shenyan, Dalian, Nanchang, Qingdao, Wuhan and Taiyan.
Here's the catch...ACFTU and Wal-Mart agreed that trade union posts should be approved by a higher-level trade union after work staff's nomination.
The work staff will elect by SECRET ballot, a chairman, vice-chairperson and other posts after which the higher level union will give approval.
Secret, higher-level approval, nominations and backstabbing, potlicking and such....sounds like unions everywhere.
I guess I was rooting for Wal-Mart on this one....
What do you think?
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